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“THE LONE STAR.” 


THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE. 


On the western coast of the Bay of Bengal is the country of 
the Teloogoos, stretching north and south about six hundred or 
seven hundred miles, and extending from the coast inland a dis- 
tance of three hundred and four hundred miles. It is a country 
densely peopled, numbering, by the latest estimate, eighteen 
millions. But Teloogoos are scattered far beyond the bounds 
of their own peculiar territory, dwelling in large numbers in all 
the towns and cities of Southern India. The boundaries and 
the population of the Teloogoo country, as recently ascertained 
by one of our missionaries on the field, and published in ‘+ The 
Missionary Magazine” for October, 1874, are thus given: 
‘¢ Beginning on the south at Pulicat, thirty miles north of 
Madras, it” (the Teloogoo country) ‘‘ extends along the coast 
five hundred and thirty miles, as far as Chicacole (sometimes 
given as far as Ganjam, about seven hundred miles). From 
Chicacole it takes a north-westerly direction, four hundred and 
sixty miles, to the River Wurdah, or the head of the River 
Taptee ; then south, six hundred miles, as follows, — to Beder 
and Yedagherry, and east of Auspree, and between Gooty and 
Bellary, to near Bangalore; from near Bangalore, east, two 
hundred miles, to Pulicat. We have within these bounds a 
country larger than the Eastern and Middle States together, and 
nearly twice as densely populated. 

‘‘ The number of inhabitants, instead of diminishing by the 
_ last census, as is often the case in such countries as this, has 
increased. The former census, and the one, I believe, from 


‘vhich our former estimates have been taken, gives the inhabi 
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tants at sixteen midlions; the last census gives it at eighteen 
millions. EIGHTEEN MILLIONS OF TELooGoos! . Compared with 
Burmah, we need three times the number of workers. Burmah, 
including both Burmah Proper and British Burmah, has only 
five millions of inhabitants.” 

The prevalent sysiem of religion among the leloogoos is 
Brahmanism, the tenets, ceremonies, and gross idolatries of 
which are well known to those familiar with missionary litera- 
ture. The system of caste is rigidly maintained among the 
Teloogoos, as everywhere in Hindostan, and has always been a 
formidable obstruction to the progress of. Christianity in that 
land. That obstruction, however, is being gradually weakened, 
and is likely to be speedily overthrown by the secular enter- 
prises of a Christian civilization, thus paving the way for a 
more rapid spread of the Christian religion among the various 
tribes of Hindostan. 


BEGINNING OF THE MISSION. 


In the year 1805 a feeble effort was made to evangelize the 
Teloogoo people. The London Missionary Society sent out in 
that year a few missionaries to labor for the Teloogoos. This 
enterprise was attended with little or nosuccess, and was eventu- 
ally relinquished. Rey. Amos Sutton, a missionary of the 
English General Baptists in Orissa, while on a visit to the 
United States, in the year 1835, urged the Baptists of this 
country to establish a mission among the TLeloogoos. The 
proposal of Mr. Sutton received a favorable response, and in 
September of that year, Rev. Samuel S. Day, with his wife, and 
Rey. E. L. Abbott, sailed from Boston to Calcutta, with instruc- 
tions to open a missicn among the Teloogoos. A large number’ 
of other missionaries, under the auspices of our Board of Foreign 
Missions, designated to the East, sailed with Messrs. Day and 
Abbott. Rev. Howard Malcom accompained this group of 
missionaries. On the arrival of the company at Calcutta, in — 
February, 1836, it was decided that Rev. Mr. Abbott should 
join the Karen Mission in British Burmah. Thither he went, 
leaving Rev. Mr. Day to open the Teloogoo mission. Mr. Day 


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A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. 5 


immediately proceeded to Vizagapatam, one of the principal 
cities of the Teloogoo country. There our solitary missionary 
entered upon a preparation for his arduous mission-work. He 
engaged a learned Brahmin as his teacher. But Mr. Day did 
not long remain in Vizagapatam. He deemed it to be more 
conducive to his work to establish his residence in one of the 
suburban villages of Madras. 

Four years of labor pass away amid numerous - difficulties 
of a very discouraging nature. A few Eurasians, Tamils, and 
English residents are baptized, but none of the Teloogoos are 
inclined to embrace Christianity. Mr. Day begins to think of 
Nellore as better suited to his work among the Teloogoos. 
That town is one hundred and ten miles north of the city of Ma- 
dras, and is situated in the midst of a large population, purely 
of Teloogoos. Thither he determines to go. In February, 
1840, he moves his family to Nellore. Here he rents a piece 
of land and erects a building adapted to mission purposes. 
Soon after his arrival at this new station he is permitted to 
welcome to his aid Rev. Stephen Van Husen and wife from 
the United States. In September of this year, 1840, Rev. Mr. 
Day baptized his first convert from the Teloogoo people. But 
the little church left alone at Madras, exposed, and without the , 
oversight of a religious teacher and leader, very soon went down, 
‘¢though another was soon after constituted at Arcot, embra- 
cing some of the same members, together with several Tamil 
and Teloogoo people who were baptized at Arcot, and placed 
under the charge of an intelligent native assistant.” 

While our missionaries at Nellore meet with obstinate hin- 
drances to their work, in the prevalent and despotic system of 
gaste, they have entire freedom in preaching at the street cor- 
ners, and on public festival occasions; also in establishing 
schools for the education of children, even from the families 
into which the missionary is not allowed to enter. In the high. 
ways many Teloogoos hear the gospel from the lips of the mis. 
sionaries ; and many parents, visiting the schools, in which they 
are more than willing to have their children taught, listen to 
the truth. The soil is under a silent preparation for ‘‘ the seed 


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of the kingdom.” The sowing for a coming harvest is going 
on, despite contempt and opposition from the people. 

Another Teloogoo is baptized in the year 1848. More 
schools at different points are established. But the main pur- 
pose of the missionaries in going among the Teloogoos is to 
preach the gospel, and to that purpose they persistently adhere. 
The population in and about Nellore is gradually beginning to 
feel the power of gospel truths, and consequently to cherish 
secret doubts’ respecting the divinity of their idols. But the 
health of the overworked missionaries now begins to fail. Mr 
Van Husen is obliged to return home. He reached this coewn- 
try in October, 1845, ‘‘ the victim of a distressing malady.” 
Mr. Van Husen never resumed mission-work in India, but died 
at Brattleboro’, Vt., in December, 1854, aged forty-two. In 
the same month and year in which Rev. Mr. Van Husen reaches 
home, Rev. Mr. Day’s health is completely prostrated. He, 
too, is compelled to quit the mission. He arrives home in 
June, 1846. So sudden and severe is Mr. Day’s illness, that 
he is unable to make provision for the care and continuance 
of the mission-work at Nellore. The mission-property, the 
schools, and the little church of seven members, only two of 
whom are Teloogoo converts, are taken in charge by a Eura- 
sian preacher, aided by two native Christians. 

At home the question of abandoning the Teloogoo country as 
a mission-field, is now seriously entertained. But Mr. Day, 
seconded by an appeal from Rev. Mr. Sutton, in the Orissa 
mission, strenuously pleads for its continuance and re-enforce 
ment. Accordingly it is ‘* determined, for the present at least, 
not to advise a dissolution of the mission.” ‘The brethren of the 
Executive will ‘* wait for future indications of Providence,” and 
leave events ‘‘ to decide the policy which should be pursued.” 

The annual meetings of the Missionary Union for 1848 are 
held in Troy, N.Y. Mr. Day’s health is measurably re-estab- — 
lished. A new man, Rev. Lyman Jewett, is ready and anxious 
to accompany Mr. Day, if he is to be restored to the Teloogoo 
field. It ig resolvel by the Union, in its meetings at Troy, to 
re-open that mission by returning Rev. Mr. Day, and with him 


A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. Ws, 


send out Rev. Mr. Jewett and wife. Mrs. Day will remain in 
this country with her children. The missionaries sail on the 
10th of October, 1848, from Boston to Calcutta, en route for 
Nellore. 

QUESTION OF DISCONTINUING THE MISSION. 

We pass over five years of struggles, and almost utterly fruit- 
less efforts, in the Teloogoo mission at Nellore, and come at 
once to another critical juncture in its history. In 1853 the 
anniversary meetings of the Union are being held in Albany, 
N.Y. A deputation to the Asiatic missions, consisting of 
Rey. Messrs. Peck and Granger, had spent twelve days, in the 
January previous, at Nellore. They had reported to the Exec- 
utive Committee their observations and impressions relating 
to that interesting but unfruitful mission. In that communica- 
tion the deputation express themselves satisfied with the value 
of the station at Nellore; with the fidelity and ability of the 
missionaries ; and, also, give utterance to a strong conviction 
that the mission should be speedily re-enforced or relinquished. 
In the event of its being abandoned, they suggest that the mis- 
sionaries there laboring be assigned to some other field. But 
the deputation hesitate to counsel the relinquishment of the 
Teloogoo field. They frankly confess that their personal inves- 
tigations brought out circumstances that seemed to them 
to weaken the claims of the mission. And what are the con- 
siderations urged in favor of relinguishment? They are briefly 
these: 1. -‘The want of suecess. 2. The want of suitable native 
helpers.. 3. The care bestowed on the people by other Chiis- 
tian denominations. 4. The ability of the missionaries to enter 
other fields. Such were the considerations, which, to the view 
of the excellent brethren composing the deputation, seemed tc 
weaken the claims of a mission among the vast heathen popula- 
tion of the Teloogoo country. 

As to ‘‘the care bestowed on the people by other Christian 
denominations,” we find that in and around Nellore, embracing 
a population of nearly two millions, the Free Church of Scotland 
had, in 1853, one native preacher and one day school! In the 

whole Teloogoo country, with its nearly eighteen millions of 


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souls, there were ten missionary statiors, with fifteen mission- 
aries from four different denominations. ‘‘ The care bestowed” 
was, surely, very inadequate. As to the transfer of the mis- 
sionaries to the other and more productive mission-fields of the 
Union, there was not much to transfer; for Mr. Day must come 
home at once, leaving only Mr. Jewett to be sent across the 
Bay of Bengal into Burmah, or elsewhere in Farther India. 

The arguments urged by the deputation for a re-enforcemen? 
are, briefly, 1. The extent of the field. 2. The knowledge 
already gained by the missionaries. 8. The prevailing policy 
of the mission. The ‘‘ prevailing policy” referred to is the 
preaching of the gospel in the vernacular by our missionaries. 
‘* To this service, the oral dispensation of the gospel, the mission- 
aries have trained themselves; and in the chapel, at stations in 
and around Nellore, and at the great Hindoo festivals, thousands 
of Teloogoos have the gospel preached to them by our brethren.” 
Thus to preach was the one absorbing work of our missionaries 
among the Teloogoos. ‘This is the fact presented by the depu- 
tation in the third argument for continuing and re-enforcing the 
mission. The main work of the missionaries of other denomi- 
nations in Hindostan was in schools for the education of 
children. 

The deputation, having reported to the Executive Committee 
of the Union their views for and against the Teloogoo Mission, 
leave the responsibility of action with the Committee. The 
Committee appeal to the Board of Managers for some decisive 
action in the case. The Board of Managers cast the. burden 
they are not willing to carry upon the denomination as repre- 
sented in the meetings at Albany, in 1853. 

A special committee is appointed on the question — Shall the 
Teloogoo Mission be relinquished or re-enforced? ‘That com- 
mittee in their report say, among other things: ‘‘ In the pres- 
ence of this question your committee tremble. ‘They feel that 
there are fearful responsibilities involved; and yet, after a care- 
ful examination of the facts, they are unanimous in recommend- 
ing a suitable re-enforcement of the mission, not an abandon- 
ment. They are unable to see any good reason why we should 


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turn our backs on that important and white harvest-field. We 
do not so understand the great commission. We are unable to 
find in it any clause for retreating soldiers, and venture to express 
the hope that the Board will never detain itself in seeking to find 
it.” Noblesentences! How they ring with the courage of faith ! 

The special committee continue as follows: ‘‘ We regard the 
work of missions, not as a work of expediency, but of faith, an«| 
of persevering labor. God has never permitted us in any of 
our missions to walk by sight. They have all had their days 
of darkness and. trial. 

‘¢ Your committee feel admonished, that if the perishing mil- 
lions of the Teloogoos were forsaken by us, on the ground of 
want of success, we should be greatly in danger of grieving 
the Holy Spirit, and of bringing down upon our more pros- 
perous missions, dearth and barrenness. ‘The door is wide open, 
and we are in the field, and it is a vast and perishing field, and 
who will dare to retreat? . . . If there is doubt as to men and 
means to carry this mission forward successfully with our other 
missions, the committee would only suggest, that the God of 
missions is a great God, and our times of necessity, in the 
whole history of missions, have been our times of salvation.” 

At an evening session of the Union, the great question of 
relinquishing or re-enforcing the Teloogoo Mission was under 
discussion. Eloquent pleas were delivered by some for re-en- 
forcement. One of the speakers, Rev. J. L. Barrows, pointing 
to Nellore on the map’ suspended over the. platform, called it 
‘‘Tur Lone Star.” The words fell upon the ears of one 
present with peculiar force. That night, before sleeping, Dr. 
S. F. Smith, the author of 

‘* My country, ’tis of thee,” 
and of 


*‘Yes, my native land, I love thee,” 
put to paper the following stanzas, on 


‘““THE LONE STAR.” 
Shine on, ‘“‘ Lone Star!” thy radiance bright 
Shall spread o’er all the eastern sky; 
Morn breaks apace from gloom and night: 
Shine on, and bless the pilgrim’s eye. 


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Shine on, ‘‘ Lone star’?! Iwould not dim 
The light that gleams with dubious ray; 
The lonely star of Bethlehem 
Led on a bright and glorious day. 


Shine on, ‘* Lone Star’?! in grief and tears, 
And sad reverses oft baptized ; 

Shine on amid thy sister spheres; 
Lone stars in heaven are not despised. 


Shine on, ‘‘ Lone Star’?! who lifts his hand 
To dash to earth so bright a gem, 

A new “lost pleiad’”’ from the band 
That sparkles in night’s diadem ? 


Shine on, ‘‘‘Lone Star’’! the day draws near 
When none shall shine more fair than thou — 
Thou, born and nursed in doubt and fear, 
Wilt glitter on Immanuel’s brow. 


Shine on, ‘‘ Lone Star’’! till earth redeemed, 
In dust shall bid its idols fall; 

And thousands, where thy radiance beamed, 
Shall ‘* crown the Saviour Lord of all.’’ 


The accomplishment of the prediction, couched in the «bove 
impromptu stanzas, will soon appear in the sequel of this sketch. 
Before the close of the meetings that year in Albany, the Union 
passed this resolution, — ‘‘ that the Teloogoo Mission be con- 
tinued and suitably re-enforced, providing that, in the judgment 
of the Board of Managers, it can be done consistently with the 
claims of Southern Burmah.” 

Rev. Mr. Day relinquished a second time the mission field in 
1858, and reached this country in September of that year. 
Rev. Mr. Jewett and family were now alone in the mission, 
attempting all that was possible to keep the arduous work moy- 
ing on. Early in the year 1855 the solitary mission family at 
Nellore is aided and cheered by the arrival of Rev. F. A. 
Douglass and wife from the United States. Good work is 
being lone. Besides the preaching in and bevond Nellore, 
tracts and scriptures are being distributed in all the numerous 
communities within a radius of twenty miles of the mission 
station, — even in villages as far north as Guntoor, a distance 


A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. 11 


of one hundred and forty-three miles from Nellore, a few souls 
are converted and added to the little church. 

Tt was in the year 1853 that Mr. Jewett, with his wife, and 
one of the native Christians, named Jacob, visited a town called 
Ongole, seventy-seven miles north from Nellore, and containing 
a population of about six thousand, all Teloogoos. In the 
public thoroughfares of Ongole, the missionary, reviled and 
stoned, preaches the gospel. The work of the day being done, 
seemingly in vain, the three, towards evening, ascend a hill 
overlooking the town, and there, singing a hymn, they prayed 
God to send a missionary to Ongole. 

The years roll away, filled with labors incessant, and some- 
times discouraging almost beyond the endurance of the strong- 
est faith. Now sitkness in the mission families, and now other 
adverse circumstances arrest labor, and drive the laborers from 
the field. Mr. Jewett, in 1862, with his physical system almost 
hopelessly shattered, is compelled to relinquish his work and to 
return home. | 

THE QUESTION AGAIN. 

The anniversary meetings of the Union are this year (1862) 
held in Providence, R.I. Again the question of abandon- 
ing the Teloogoo Mission is under debate. Indeed, its abandon- 
ment is urgently demanded, as the writer well remembers. 
‘¢ Wait,” exclaimed Dr. Warren, ‘‘ wait, brethren ; ye know not 
what ye are doing! Wait; let us hear what Br. Jewett, who is 
now on his journey home, has to say on this question.” ‘* For 
the most part,” writes one, ‘‘ Mr. Jewett had received from 
those for whom he was sacrificing his life, a dreary toleration, 
sometimes exchanged for open opposition ; and if he turned his 
wearied thoughts to America for rest, he too often found him- 
self only tolerated there. Sometimes’ he found the Board dis- 
cussing the abandonment of the mission ; sometimes apologizing 
to the public for its existence.” But Mr. Jewett never relaxed 
his*confidence in the God of missions; and the ‘‘ Lone Star” 
Mission was to Mr. Jewett precious beyond expression. With 
the vision of faith he beheld a day breaking for ine millions of 
that benighted and besotted people. 


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On his arrival home, in 1862, the relinquishment of the 
mission is proposed to him, and considerations urged in jus- 
tification of such a step. But Mr. Jewett is immovable. Un- 
swervingly he maintains himself against a surrender. He 
believes the Lord has ‘‘ much people” among the Teloogoos, 
and that the Baptists of America should give them Christ’s 
gospel. He believes that the prayers already sent up to heaven 
will yet be answered; that the labors, the struggles, the sacri- 
fices, and the money thus far laid upon the altar of God for the 
salvation of the Teloogoos are not squandered, but will, in due 
season, bring forth a rich harvest. The Union may abandon 
the field, but he will bear no part of the fearful responsibility 
involved in that abandonment. If encouragement and aid are 
refused him by the Union, then he will return alone, and spend 
his remaining strength and days among the Teloogoos. 

The confidence, the courage, the faith, and the determination 
of Mr. Jewett were not to be treated lightly, and could not be 
overthrown or weakened by arguments based on a policy of 
expediency. Mr. Jewett,-in the presence of the Executive 
Committee of the Union, declared, in most emphatic terms, his 
determination never to abandon the Teloogoo Mission. 'The Sec- 
retary, smiling, answered: ‘‘ Well, brother, if you are resolved 
to return, we must send somebody with you to bury you. You 
certainly ought to have a Christian burial in that heathen land.” 
It is resolved to return Mr. Jewett, if health is re-established, to 
his field of labor. But he must carry a helper with him. That 
helper is raised up; the Lord has been training a man to reap 
in a field already well tilled, and now nearly ready for the 
reapers. 

LIGHT BREAKING. 

It is the year 1865. Twelve years before was held that re- 
markable prayer-meeting on a hill, now known as ‘ Prayer- 
Meeting Hill,” overlooking Ongole. Three believing souls, at 
the close of day, ascended that hill, and looking down upon‘the 
idolatrous temples of the place, they felt a peculiar inclination 
to ask God for a missionary to be sent to Ongole. Dr. Jewett, 
now (1874) in this country, informs the writer, that in tha‘ 


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prayer-meeting, composed of himself, Mrs. Jewett. and the 
native Christian Jacob, there was given to them a strung assur- 
ance of being heard in the special prayer then and there offered. 
The answer came after the lapse of twelve years. Mr. Clough, 
the ‘‘ Missionary for Ongole,” arrives at Nellore, in company 
with Mr. Jewett. 

Mr. Clough lingers for a while in Nellore, making prepara- 
tion to begin labor. He writes from Nellore, under date Nov. 
6, 1865: “* Yesterday was a happy day for the ‘Lone Star’ 
Mission. It was my privilege to baptize four. Our little 
church, which has been struggling against adverse winds and 
tides for these many years, feels strengthened. God is sending 
us his elect, a great multitude of whom we expect to see here 
among the Teloogoos ere many years, who shall come out from 
heathenism.” Faith is again predicting. And why not? 
‘¢ The Lone Star Mission,” continues Mr. Clough, ‘‘ has stood 
here in the midst of darkness deeper than night, for about 
twenty-five years; yet few, very few, have ‘ believed our re- 
port.’ We feel that this cannot longer be endured; that God 
has elect people here, and that they must come out from the 
reckless multitude. I am no longer able to keep quiet, and 
daily I go with the catechists to the village near the mission- 
house, pveaching. Brother Jewett preaches in the bazaar 
nights and mornings, and has a class in theology.” 

Early in the year 1866 Mr. Clough, the ‘‘ Missionary for 
Ongole,” makes his first visit to his designated station. Soon 
the mighty spirit of the Lord descends to bring out the elect 
from the multitudinous ranks of the heathen. On the first day 
of January, 1867, a church is organized in Ongole. It begins 
its existence with only eight souls. But the little one is speedily 
to become a thousand. It is now (1874) the largest Baptist 
church in the world, numbering about three thousand three 
hundred souls. 


RE-ENFORCEMENTS. 


The Teloogoo Mission is again re-enforced in April, 1868, by 
the arrival of Rev. Mr. Timpany and wife, who left this country 


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in October, 1867. Rev. A. V. Timpany, a native of the Prov- 
ince of Nova Scotia, is a gift from the Baptists of Canada, and 
has been, up to the present, supported in the work by funds 
contributed to the Union by those brethren. Rev. Mr. Day, the 
pioneer in this field of missions, was also a native of Canada. 
Mr. Timpany on arriving at his field of labor, and seeing the 
Teloogoos flocking in crowds to receive the gospel from the 
lips of the missionaries, is filled with joyful amazement, and 
joins in the work with enthusiastic zeal. In his first communi- 
cation to the Mission Rooms, he writes: ‘‘'To-day you have the 
most successful mission in India. Send us men and means, 
and by the help of our Master, we will gather this people by 
the thousands. God’s Spirit is resting upon Teloogoo, as it 
brooded of old upon the deep.” A month later he writes: ‘* The 
work of God in the Teloogoo Mission goes on gloriously. God 
is giving and going to give us the Teloogoos just as fast as we 
can take care of them. God has an elect people here, and they 
must come. They are coming. The Nellore Mission is alive ; 
sterling additions are being made.” 

The Annual Report of the Union for 1870 presents copious 
extracts from the letters of the Teloogoo Missionaries. In 
those extracts we find such sentences as these: ‘‘ In the midst 
of harvest, . . . men and women turned out by hundreds to 
hear about Jesus; and not only. to hear, but to believe also. 
Three hundred and twenty-four were baptized in one month 
(December) ; and hundreds of others sent away until we should 
know them better.” Again: ‘‘ The first week in January, 1869, 
we .. . spent in special prayer. We asked the great Head 
of the Church that he would send five hundred of his own elect 
to us, the year then just commenced. If all we have baptized 
prove to be real Christians, . . . the number asked for came, 
and seventy-three more.” 

Another family, Rev. John McLaurin and wife, is added to 
the mission-band on the Teloogoo field, having sailed from this 
country in December, 1869. Mr. McLaurin is likewise a gift to 
this mission from the Baptists in Canada, and also supported 
by funds provided by them so long as he remained a missionary 


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A Sketch of the Teloogoo Mission. 15 


of the Union. Recently our brethren in Canada have estab- 
lished a mission of their own among the Teloogoos, in a region 
of the Teloogoo land called Coconédo; and Mr. McLaurin, with \ 
the best wishes for his undertaking, has dissolved his connec- 
tion with the Union, and opened a mission in Coconada, under 
the auspices of the Foreign Mission-board of the Canada Bap- 
tists. In November, 1870, the mission was again re-enforced 
by Rev. Edwin Bullard, son of a former missionary of the Union. 

At the beginning of the year 1872, while yet surrounded with 
eager listeners, and numerous converts were waiting for bap- 
tism, the health of Rev. Mr. Clough broke down; and at the 
urgent solicitation of his associates, he returned home for rest, 
with the hope of recuperating his exhausted system. He ar- 
rived in this country early in May, 1872. He was charged by 


‘his brethren left behind, to bring with him on his return, four 


additional laborers, and to secure while in this country an 
endowment of fifty thousand dollars for a Theological Seminary 
for training a native Teloogoo ministry. Both of those objects 
have been gained ; and Mr. Clough, having left behind him his 
little daughter ‘‘ Nellore,” has resumed his mission among the 
Teloogoos, with recruited health, and heart full of hope in his 
work. The first six years of Mr. Clough’s labors, among the 
Teloogoos were one protracted Pentecost; and during his 
absence from the field in pursuit of health, under the labors of» 
Rev. Mr. McLaurin, who in the interim had charge of the 
station at Ongole, the work of the Lord went forward with un- 
abated power, over seven hundred in one year having been 
added to the church by baptism. ‘* The history of modern 
missions has rarely recorded such a work. In our own fields, 
only the ingathering among the Karens, under Boardman and 
Abbott, shows so marked features of the power of the gospel 
over whole peoples.” 


THE PRESENT OUTLOOK. 


The ‘‘ four men for the Teloogoos,” called for in the appeal 


of Rev. Mr. Clough, and three of whom are in the field, — the 
fourth being on his passage thither, — are Revs. D. Downie, 


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R. R. Williams, W. W. Campbell, and D. H. Drake; the first’ 


three accompanied with their wives, and the last unmarried. 
Besides the above named. brethren, with their wives, are two 
single women connected with the Teloogoo Mission. These are 
supported by funds from the Woman’s Baptist Missionary 
Society of the West. The women are Miss A. L. Peabody, 
who has been in the field three years, having sailed from 
Boston, Jan. 2, 1872, and Miss M. A. Wood, now on the pas- 
sage thither, having sailed from New York, Sept. 19, 1874. 
iThe ‘‘ Lone Star” shone on, though its light was oftentimes 
‘¢ dubious.” Its ‘‘ radiance bright” is already beginning to 
‘¢ spread o’er all the eastern sky.” The Teloogoo Mission has 
now four central stations — Nellore, Alloor, Ramapatam, and 
Ongole, — each with many out-stations. Native laborers, full of 


zeal and faith, are pushing out into the dense darkness of the_ | 
land, carrying the blazing torch of divine truth. The churches 


comprise a membership of about forty-five hundred, where six 
years ago there were thirty-eight members. 

Connected with the Teloogoo Mission at this hour are fifteen 
American missionaries, including women. There are about 
fifty ordained and unordained native helpers. There are thirty 
schools, embracing nearly six hundred pupils, with native 
teachers and assistants, to the number of thirty-five. A Theo- 


logical Seminary, with an endowment of fifty thousand dollars, — 


is established at Ramapatam, doing a good work in the way of 
fitting native converts to preash the gospel to their countrymen. 

What hath God wrought! Faith has at length won the vic: 
‘ory over the doubts and fears of many years. 


‘Shine on ‘ Lone Star’! thy radiance bright 
Shall spread o’er all the eastern sky — 
Morn breaks apace from gloom and night, 
Shine on, and bless the pilgrim’s eye. 


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‘Shine on, ‘Lone Star’! till earth redeemed 
In dust shall bid its idols fall, 
And thousands, where thy radiance beamed, 
Shall ‘Crown the Saviour Lord of all.’ ’’ 


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